Home Improvement projects

Those people who are always doing home improvement projects put a lot of time and hard work into it. I suppose they get some sort of satisfaction out of it but if I want something like that done it makes more sense to find a way to make some extra money and pay a professional to to it.

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Exactly. My problem is, I never have any extra money. The wife and kids see to that.

Those people who are always doing home improvement projects put a lot of time and hard work into it. I suppose they get some sort of satisfaction out of it but if I want something like that done it makes more sense to find a way to make some extra money and pay a professional to to it.

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I'm trying to save $400 by painting the ceiling. I still have a $2500 job for them

So we have one of those Jacuzzi tubs. The center access panel has been off for months, maybe years hell I don't know.

So I go to get my little girl out the other day and happen to notice the water, a lot of water under the tub. Great. So I stick my phone in there and take a few pictures and figure out which her is leaking.

When I start taking the jet out I find out the pvc union / jet is cracked all to hell. Like in half. Turns out it was clogged with hair.

I'm trying to save $400 by painting the ceiling. I still have a $2500 job for them

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What kind of ceiling? We've been scraping the popcorn finish off our ceilings room by room, so we have a smooth finish. That's a job I'll gladly pay someone else to do; but once its smooth, painting it is not bad at all.

So we have one of those Jacuzzi tubs. The center access panel has been off for months, maybe years hell I don't know.

So I go to get my little girl out the other day and happen to notice the water, a lot of water under the tub. Great. So I stick my phone in there and take a few pictures and figure out which her is leaking.

When I start taking the jet out I find out the pvc union / jet is cracked all to hell. Like in half. Turns out it was clogged with hair.

Said it for years and now have proof, pressure will burst a pipe

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My parents put in a jacuzzi tub years ago. One December during a rare freeze, we went to visit my brother, 3 hours away. My younger brother and I came back separately from my parents, and found the pipe to the tub had broke in the freeze while we were away. Talk about a mess.

So this summer I did a huge renovation and had both of my bathrooms redone. Converted one of my bathtubs into a walking shower with bench. It turned out great.

I also repainted the dining room and kitchen. Well, the bathroom got a new paint job on the ceilings so I need to get the rest of the house done. So I decided to see if I could paint my hallway ceiling. I did it and did a pretty good job. Recognized the errors I made which will be corrected when the guys I have paint my living room walls and ceiling and hallway walls next month can fix

What kind of ceiling? We've been scraping the popcorn finish off our ceilings room by room, so we have a smooth finish. That's a job I'll gladly pay someone else to do; but once its smooth, painting it is not bad at all.

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Its not popcorn but textured. The roller brush is working well. The guys I hired say the texturing is unusual for both my walls and ceiling - never seen it before. Its pretty, but hard to match they said. The hard part for me is up and down the ladder - I am not great with heights but fortunately the ceiling if only 10ft so I can reach it easily. and I was near the counters the whole time on the ladder so had stability. The Speech pathologist I work with is going to help me with the Dining room.